The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
But how odd that in this heathen nation of empty pews, where churches' bare, ruined choirs are converted into luxury loft living, a Labour government - yes, a Labour government - is deliberately creating a huge expansion of faith schools.
The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.
Scientology is not that different from other religions. And yet, at the same time, we don't have Anglicans doing the things that are alleged to be done in Scientology, at least in the Sea Org.
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
There's no question that there is more anti-religion noise in Britain.
So much of our fictional medievalism is distorted through a lens of Protestantism and the Reformation, slanted even further through Victorian anti-Catholicism. The depiction of actual medieval attitudes toward the Church is remarkably rare.
It's troubling for me as a Catholic to be at odds with the church.
The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion.
Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.